Quote for Today: Iain M. Banks
“Yes, excuses,” he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. “I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively …
Quote for Today: Christopher Nolan
I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don’t want to be hanging …
Quote for Today: Akala
Racist insults leave you feeling dirty because, even at five years old, we already know on some level that, in this society at least, we are indeed lesser citizens with …
40 days of poetry: Day 25: Sugar by Tina Chang
Day 25 of 40 days of poetry: Sugar by Tina Chang. I think we have all, at some point, played a role which felt wrong and uncomfortable at our core. …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Brontë
She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, …
Quote for Today: Norton Juster
“It has been a long trip,” said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; “but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn’t made so many …
Quote for Today: Katherine Dunn
Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling …
Quote for Today: Tom Stoppard
It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing…. A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on …
Quote for the Day: Terry Pratchett
It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its …